Garden Journal

100th anniversary of the OPRF Garden Club! A centennial celebration, featuring the traditional parade of hats, cool silent auction items (garden jewels, living salad bowl, nasturtium seeds, and more).

I miscalculated slightly in my planting, and I now have enough tulips and daffodils to open a flower shop… The *plan* was to plant the cutting beds so I’d have enough blooms to do the flower arrangements for our May 20 anniversary party, without leaving the rest of the garden bare, but Mother Nature has

Met a new neighbor just now, and she told me that my garden was her favorite in Oak Park. She likes how wild and surprising it is, and how every day, there’s something new. My work here is done.

We mostly ignored the backyard for the first seven years we lived here (short on both time and money), but last summer we got some furniture, and in the fall, I threw a bunch of bulbs in the ground. It’s coming along nicely now. Ellie approves.   I can’t take credit for the scilla —

One of my favorite parts of the house is the wrap-around front porch, and it honestly makes me a little giddy when it gets warm enough to actually start working out there. (New rug from Target; I really like it.) It’s borderline today, but a few days ago it was splendidly warm, and even yesterday,